Tag: sysadmin

Running an OnionShare anonymous dropbox on a Raspberry Pi

Posted February 24, 2021 in onionshare leaks sysadmin tor

Now that the command line version of OnionShare has better support for running on headless Linux servers, I figured I should set up a dedicated Raspberry Pi anonymous dropbox server, and while I'm at it document how I'm doing it in a blog post.

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Hardening Debian for the Desktop Using Grsecurity

Posted January 15, 2016 in sysadmin security linux

I recently built a desktop system that I think is reasonably secure. It’s running Debian sid, also known as “unstable” — though in the Debian desktop world that just means you get to use the newest software. It’s just about as stable as “stable”, and besides, #yolo. It’s also running a grsecurity-patched Linux kernel and PaX, technologies that make Linux way more secure. Grsecurity protects you against memory corruption attacks, such as buffer overflows.

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Beefing Up Security on Your SSH Server

Posted January 20, 2013 in sysadmin security

Lately I’ve been thinking about setting up a blog to talk about tech things I find interesting, particularly web security, since that’s how I spend a lot of my work and free time. Since I had an under-used VPS sitting around, I figured I ought to set up WordPress on it and start blogging. What better topic to blog about than how I’m securely setting up this website?

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